Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

No one is you, and that is your power.

If you play a Nickleback song backwards you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you'll hear Nickleback.

That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.

I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.

You will only be great at things you love to do don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

Whether I scare some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you.

Positives can always be found in anything that is faced as long as the correct attitude can be maintained.

Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.

It's only interesting when you're from somewhere else, like America or Japan. The further away the more interesting it is.

The anxiety of not knowing what my next gig is keeps me hungry.

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit

In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is.

You can't do in a race what you haven't prepared for.

That's been my sort of aim in life, to never miss an opportunity.

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.